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His exhausted escort halted to rest whilst he continued the examination of the river in a canoe. For 150 miles the course of the Mississippi is rapid and uninterrupted, but beyond that distance begins a series of rapids extending over twelve miles to the Peckgama Falls. Above this cataract the stream, now far less rapid, winds through vast savannahs to Leech Lake.
On the 3rd July, the expedition reached the factory of a trader named Aitkin, on the banks of the river, and there celebrated on the following day the anniversary of the independence of the United States. Two days later Schoolcraft found himself opposite the Peckgama Falls, and encamped at Oak Point.
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